So say you could create a tribute album to any artist you wanted with any bands/people you wanted on it, what would the tracklisting look like?

Riding around downtown today on the bus, I thought how I'd really enjoy a tribute album to Eels. Mine is slightly realistic in the sense that I chose a lot of people he's worked with, is friends with, and mostly artists that are still making music in 2005. Anyway, here's my quick idea of a tracklisting:

01. Abandoned Pools – Hello Cruel World
02. Badly Drawn Boy – Nowheresville
03. Cinerama – Manchester Girl
04. Matthew Sweet – Novocaine For The Soul
05. Daniel Johnston – My Beloved Monster
06. Tegan And Sara – Flower
06. Fastball – Last Stop: This Town
07. Tom Waits – Cancer For The Cure
08. Ben Folds – Dead of Winter
09. Rilo Kiley – I Like Birds
10. REM – Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues
11. The Flaming Lips – Souljacker
12. The Arcade Fire – Fresh Feeling
13. Cake – Teenage Witch
14. The Lovin’ Spoonful – Marie Floating Over The Backyard
15. Beck – To Lick Your Boots
16. Joanna Newsom – Dusk: A Peach In The Orchard

Hmm. This is a good idea. I'm going to have to think about this.

What about, The Medication Is Wearing Off? Probably one of my favorite Eels songs..

I recall this thread from CMJ a year or so ago. There were some pretty decent things thrown around.

This type of exercise is always fun.

I'll hold this thought until I have a job I need distracted from.

Ditters, but I already know which group needs a tribute album: Golden Earring. They have so many good songs, not just "those two".

A trib to Ian Hunter/ Mott the Hoople (and why isn't there one of these already?):

"All The Way From Memphis" American Death Ray Music
"Wash Us Away" Paul Westerberg
"23A Swan Hill" Brendan Benson
"Death May Be Your Santa Claus" The Paybacks
"Violence" Ike Reilly
"Angeline" The Hold Steady
"Jerkin' Crocus" Spoon
"Just Another Night" Rancid
"Life After Death" New Pornographers
"Cleveland Rocks" Hot Hot Heat
"When The Daylight Comes" Josh Rouse
"Once Bitten Twice Shy" Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"Who Do You Love?" Drive-by Truckers
"Roll Away The Stone" Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
"All The Young Dudes" Veal
"One Of The Boys" Grand Mal
"I Wish I Was Your Mother" Thelonious Monster
"All American Alien Boy" Joe Henry
"Still Love Rock 'n' Roll" Marah

i'm going to be stuck on this for the rest of the night...

Ditto.

I have an idea but I may need a boring day at work(or busy since that's when I get all my flashes of brilliance, ha) to do this.

"Bastard" Dusty Chalk (or perhaps whatever band I'm in, if I can convince the rest of 'em)

or perhaps "Standing In My Light"

or maybe even "Outsider", althought that would be a tough one to cover, since it's already perfect.

this is too good of an idea to be buried. so, i picked pulp because they're a band that i love and that i rarely hear covered. what i tried to do was pick bands based on whether they'd actually like the song for its content. i spent much of this afternoon combing over pulp albums and browsing my record collection in search of a band that could handle whatever song was currently playing. i went with a lot of their hits, but also dropped in a few not-so-common songs. eh, i'd love to hear it.

the faint - "countdown"
lcd soundsystem - "party hard"
fischerspooner - "death goes to disco"
kasabian - "f.e.e.l.i.n.g.c.a.l.l.e.d.l.o.v.e."
air - "the fear"
robbie williams - "underwear"
stars - "razzmatazz"
fiery furnaces - "sorted for e's & wizz"
gorky's zygotic mynci - "babies"
belle & sebastian - "a little soul"
doves - "weeds"
rilo kiley - "like a friend"
super furry animals - "common people"
the hold steady - "disco 2000"
manic street preachers - "bad cover version"
the strokes - "do you remember the first time?"
scissor sisters - "sheffield: sex city"
the postal service - "mile end"
saturday looks good to me - "mis-shapes"
rufus wainwright - "this is hardcore"
fruit bats - "sunrise"
sondre lerche - "the birds in your garden"
sufjan stevens - "the trees"
julie doiron - "i love life"

This one came to me in the shower this morning...

We Get the Funniest Looks From Everyone We Meet:
An Indie Rock Tribute to The Monkees

(Theme From) The Monkees - The Hold Steady
"Last Train to Clarksville" - Ted Leo + Pharmacists
"Take a Giant Step" - Ass Ponys
"I Wanna Be Free" - Andrew Bird
"I'm a Believer" - Jim White
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" - Spoon
"Mary, Mary" - The Deathray Davies
"Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" - Pedro The Lion
"A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" - Dressy Bessy
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" - The New Pornographers
"Daydream Believer" - John Vanderslice
"Cuddly Toy" - The Detroit Cobras
"Valleri" - The Black Keys
"That Was Then, This Is Now" - Pernice Brothers

"Pleasant Valley Sunday" - The New Pornographers
Matthew Sweet – Novocaine For The Soul

I'd very much like to hear these two.

I'm picking up the gauntlet too, and I'm calling dibs on a Jellyfish tribute, just cuz I want one...

Max Fischer Presents: A Tribute to the Rushmore Soundtrack.

1. Making Time-The Pixies (The Creation)
2. Concrete & Clay-Belle And Sebastian (Unit 4+2)
3. Nothing In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl-Sufjan Stevens (The Kinks)
4. A Summer Song-The Shins (Chad & Jeremy)
5. Here Comes My Baby-Spoon (Cat Stevens)
6. A Quick One, While He's Away-Broken Social Scene (The Who)
7. Rue Saint-Vincent-RjD2 (Yves Montand)
8. The Wind-The Arcade Fire (Cat Stevens)
9. Oh Yoko-The Decemberists (John Lennon)
10. Ooh La La-The Max Fischer Players [Supergroup feat. Britt Daniel, Jeff Tweedy, John Vanderslice, and Jason Schwartzman) (The Faces)

All the instrumental interludes can all be done by Madlib.

Just to fit the album title, I'd make it a live recording of a show to benefit whatever charity the guys would want the $$$ donate to.

Not totally sure of the tracklist, but these might be interesting:

One Time, One Night: A Live Tribute to Los Lobos
Mas y Mas - Café Tacuba
Kiko & the Lavender Moon - Tom Waits
That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore - X
Dream In Blue - Trey Anastesio
One Time, One Night - Steve Earle
Will The Wolf Survive - Elvis Costello

and whatever else...

Genius!

That's one of the few from my list that I always thought would be perfect...

I got as far as an EP with my Payin the Cost to Be the Boss: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen before i got mad at wasting so much time on it and gave up. the stones was even harder.
"Hungry Heart" - The Ramones
"Johnny 99" - Tom Waits
"The E Street shuffle" - The Hold Steady (fantasy tribute album winners!)
"Born in the USA" - Billy Bragg
"Highway Patrolman" - The Mountain Goats

Not on the soundtrack, but in the movie "I am Waiting" by The Rolling Stones...who covers this?

Yo La Tengo

When's the release date? I want this and Bob's Monkees album like PRONTO

A Tribute To Weird Al Yankovic's Original Songs:

1. Why Does This Always Happen To Me? - Ben Folds
2. Waffle King - Peter Gabriel
3. Your Horoscope For Today - Super Furry Animals
4. I'm So Sick Of You - XTC
5. Midnight Star - Blur
6. Everything You Know Is Wrong - They Might Be Giants
7. Dog Eat Dog - The Apples In Stereo
8. Hardware Store - Ween
9. I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead - Interpol
10. Dare To Be Stupid - The Dandy Warhols
11. Melanie - The Magnetic Fields
12. The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota - The Arcade Fire
13. Albuquerque - The Fiery Furnaces
14. Genius In France - Q And Not U

Good one, but I think I'd also be interested in a Weird Al meta tribute album, in which the parodied artists cover Weird Al's parody of their song.

So far I'd buy this fugger.